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By Dave Andrusko Before I started writing this post, I checked to see how many times NRL News Today had written about Dr. Adrian Owen, who is a Canadian Excellence Research Chair in cognitive neuroscience and imaging based at the University of Western Ontario’s Brain...
By Dave Andrusko Before I started writing this post, I checked to see how many times NRL News Today had written about Dr. Adrian Owen, who is a Canadian Excellence Research Chair in cognitive neuroscience and imaging based at the University of Western Ontario’s Brain...
By Dave Andrusko Of all the hundreds of stories we have written over the decades about patients with devastating brain injuries, this could be by far, the most amazing. ‘Locked-in syndrome’ is a rare neurological disorder characterized by complete paralysis of...
By Dave Andrusko A little over four years ago we reposted a story—remarkable in every sense of the word—of Martin Pistorius. Dr. Peter Saunders wrote The Sunday Times today tells the story of Martin Pistorius, a South African man who ended up paralyzed and comatose...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. If you want to peruse stories all day long, go directly to nationalrighttolifenews.org and/or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/daveha A Friday night tradition for my wife and I is to have dinner and attend a movie at a local “arts”...
By Dave Andrusko A little over three years ago we reposted a story—remarkable in every sense of the word—of Martin Pistorius. Dr. Peter Saunders wrote The Sunday Times today tells the story of Martin Pistorius, a South African man who ended up paralyzed and...
The media has a tendency to focus on the negatives of profound disability by giving a hugely disproportionate level of coverage to disabled people who wish to end their lives and very little to the majority who actually value their lives. I try to highlight these good...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Tony Nicklinson is 58 and paralysed from the neck down after...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. ~~~~~~~~~~~ A case of ‘locked-in syndrome’ that is appearing...
By Dr. Peter Saunders There was a brilliant piece in the Independent [newspaper] yesterday, about a British DJ with locked-in syndrome, which deserves far wider circulation. ‘Locked in, but still lost in music: UK's bravest DJ’ tells the story of Bram Harrison, 34,...